Yui Ishikawa and Iori Noguchi are joining the Japanese dub cast of the second season A Herbivorous Dragon of 5,000 Years Gets Unfairly Villainized. The upcoming second season will air in Japan sometime in October 2024.
Ishikawa will voice the Asga queen Vanessa, while Noguchi will play Vanessa’s younger sister Rosetta. Both are featured in the new visual for the Chinese donghua series below.
They join a Japanese dub voice cast that includes:
- • Aoi Yuuki as Reiko
- • Hochuu Ootsuka as Herbivorous Dragon
- • Yoshino Nanjo as Ryatt
- • Mariko Miyase as Aliante
- • Shuka Saito as Water Saint
Siwen Liu (Dawang Bu Gaoxing) directed the first season, with Wan Zi as character designer and LAN STUDIO as the animation production company.
The first 12-episode season premiered on bilibili on July 30, 2022. Bilibili streamed the series with English subtitles in August 2022, while Crunchyroll streamed the donghua for release outside of Asia. The Japanese dubbed version premiered on January 6, 2024.
A Herbivorous Dragon of 5,000 Years is a Chinese animated adaptation of Kaisei Enomoto‘s fantasy light novel series that was published under Kadokawa Shoten’s Sneaker Bunko imprint from February 1, 2018 to October 1, 2019. Shugao provided the illustrations for the light novels. Three total volumes were released during its publication. The series began as a web novel on Shosetsuka ni Naro from June 2017 to June 2020.
© Kaisei Enomoto, Syugao / KADOKAWA 2022
The light novels also inspired a manga adaptation by Koichi Muro that ran in Square Enix’s Monthly Gangan Joker magazine from January 22, 2018 until November 22, 2019. Five tankobon volumes were released in total.
Crunchyroll describes the synopsis of A Herbivorous Dragon of 5,000 Years as:
Desperate to defend her village from the demon king, Reiko offers herself to a 5,000-year-old dragon for his help in exchange, but the flame-breathing beast is vegetarian and a total weakling. Together they embark on a journey to take down the demon king. With her dragon comrade, Reiko claims that she’s his disciple, able to draw from his infinite powers, but is it really from him?
Source: A Herbivorous Dragon Official Twitter, Official Website
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